The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-19
.O'BRIEN'S INVASION.
OF TUE DOMINION OF CANADA i,
Sets the People to aus.slnr a. to tho Future
OF folitlcs-The Hitter nlsotry OF tho
ornngemen-one of Them has the
Courage to wish the Agttator Well. . :,

Toronto, OSr, May lS.--The incursion
Of o'Brien, the Irish agltator, seems ia
have changed tho whole face Of Canadian
politics, and II Is though! will have az, I'm.
pottant bearing on the future OF parties
and politics In the Dominion. Tho sensi.
tiveness at the outset 10 criticism Of any
sort, whether of Canadian institutions zen.
orally, or Of Lord Lansdowne's landlord.
Ism particularly, where the critichappeped
NOT to b. resident In the country,
has given way, and now men have
taken sides, and in the hote,a
on the atreets and in the Newspaper Off.
ces comparisons are being made and n
battle is being fought over tho relative
advantages Of being American citizsnnss' = ~ !
Canadian subjects OF her maiesty. Tho
CatnoIcs who spoke regretlully In repayd
TO the Fenian invasion OF twenty vsa,s
ago don't speak 80 now, and the Or,
angemen who talked 10 determined nan-
ner about Mr.. O'Brien's .inyasionn say
that II he attempted 10 speak here aoain
no would probably pay the penalty With
me. lille. The Orangemen seem 10 faaI
that they have committed a blunderl not
In having attacked the sneaker and d;ss
tutbed the meeting, but In not having
aohe &c. Ihey now express disappoint.
ment 6ecause they allowed the meeting 10
As evidence that the 0rangemen ara not
solld against him MIR. O'Brien furnishes
the following Tor publication to-day, with
the remark: Look at that boys; the most
powerful indictment that hss been yet
drawn up against Lsnsdowne and His
roWdy defenders and the most completa
vindication OF my action in this matter. p.
The letter was as follows:
"FENELoS FALLS, OSr., May Is.
To Mr.. William O'Bsiea, TORONTO:
DEAR Sir: As one 0rangeman of yood
standing In Canada welcome Won 10 onr
shores and wish you succees in adyocat.
ing the rights OF poor lietretss
evicted tenants in Ireland. II
despise the man, high or low, who
will uphold Lansdowne in his cruel evjc.
tions. am sorry to gee go little Bympatby
in Canada for your causo, It ia pood
cause, and alter you are gone will have its /
effect. II Lansdowne is good Governor
General thst is no reason Why the peonle
should uphold him in his tyrsn.
nical eviction career. l have M
uoqpt au you say is right
as happen 10 know French, Lord Lans.
doWne's agent. Being landlords son,
porn and brought up in Ireland, 1 take a
oeep interest In lreland's affairs and the
progress Of the Home Rule movement.
which hope will soon be Triumphant
think may safely Say that Burke's
English Peerage gives my father, Henry
Lucas, OF older family than either Lord
Lansdowne or French. Again wishing
you and your cause success,
| am yours faithfully, AcHKsoH.
at half.past eight o'clock President ].
a. Muiligan, Of the local branch OF the
National League, called at the hotel and
asked MIR. O'Brien to 20 out and have
walk. D. P. Cahill, Dennis Kilbride. the
eVicted tenant, and J. NJ. Wall, special
correspondent. OF the New York 9ri5uns.
were present and suggested that it would
not be prudent to venture out as darkness
mad iallen and crowd Of about 200
fo~dles had gathered around the hotel
hissnS, hooling and groaning. Mr..
o'Brien, however, persisted in going. 81
have right to so out" he said in deter.
mined manner, .'and will 70, and he did
go, the gentlemen before mentioned ac.
companying him."
The crowd that coon surrounded
O'Brien groaned and missed into bis fsce
such cries aa AWAY, traitor" Down
with the dynamiter" and "God save the
Queen" O'Brien and his party turned
into Bay street., where they were met
with a.shoHer oil bricks. =
MIR. Wall was on his right snd Kilbride
and J. A. Mulligan were on his Left.
"Look out, O'Brien," shouted Wall, "the
stonee are coming; it's Belfast over
again." "Oh, it's all right" replied
O'Btien, "it would be better for Lausdogne
II they left us alone" AS he spoke
volley of bricks and cobble stones came
flying from the 0rangemen, missing heads
but knocking the plestering of an adjacent
wall. Shouts OF ITO hell with the Pope"
"kill the traitor" and go on rose high
above the din.
.O'Brien took reipge in q store, and was
afterwards led away in safety. Wall, tho
correspondent OF the New York Tribune,
was eeriously injured.